Sol

i'm sure your bro matt would be proud.

leave no trace.

cool. thanks.

bump

give a ring next time and stop by the hottub on your way out of town.

Lost: Muira velcro climbing shoe at Vantage on Monday 11/17, most likely at the base of Ya Snooze Ya Lose at the sunshine wall. Will pay for shipping and/or buy you a beer.

or more simply you can use your helmet or tag up a rock.

Bobby bobby bobby, digi digi digi.....

I am interested and have windfarm experience. PM sent.

Thanks Eric, I enjoyed it.

Well, i'm glad i own one, though i've barely used it. Saving it for my mid-life crisis, i geuss.

Badass!

while we're on the subject of fixed pins and castle rock. a friend recently pulled the manky fixed pin protecting the roof on shriek of the multilated(croft/yoder 12a), to reveal a perfect green alien placement. before the send, the placement was tested, and its a go.

hells no. another option is to just toprope it. telemarker got it right, offset aliens work great in that spot (and on most trad routes in ltown).

i think klar404 has summed you two up already.

so did you all of the sudden expect shangri-la? well, the one thing your not going to find up on the hill is a bunch of easy quality problems. and that's where many bellinghamsters affair with the zone ends; a little looksey, dissapointed with the lack of moderates and/or scared of the sloper highballs. for those with a bit of strength and a few pads its a decent hang with good temps, solitude, and some badass slopers. it's a great area as a quick hit in-between classes at western. also a nice diversion when your tired of eliminating more holds from the same tired-ass problems at larrabee. often a stoned hippie or two from the fairhaven college wandering around, willing to share... same guide(updated with v grades): drtopo sure, half the stuff in the guide you'll never find, and another quarter won't be worth climbing, but, if you can make it over choada boy's piles of vomit go check out: brain cancer V4 the full monty V7 woo V3: the sehome traverse V6 the three stones of wisdom are worth a session stitches V1 unnamed V2 at the turtle area: some strong boulderers from seattle and ltown checked it out this summer and were surprised at the quality of some of the harder and scarier sloper lines. the beauty of sehome hill lies in the eye of the beholder, and if you live in the ham you ain't got much rock to hold on to...

there is a dusting of snow on top that hasn't melted in the last couple of days.

i recently heard of a variation where you traverse into the arete from iron horse (power horse?). Apparently it skips the 5.13 crux, and keeps things reasonable, you know like 5.12 at index (hahaha).

i beleive sonnie trotter sent it, i'm sure others have to. ben g added an extension to it about a year ago that clocks in at 13+R, The Full Amandla: "The extension adds 40 feet of climbing and tackles hard climbing passing the original anchor, pulls the center of the next roof ,and finishes with tenuous sidepulls. Aside from the new fix sport anchor at the top, I only added one bolt just over the lip of the roof. There is at least one good RP placement just prior to the final crux. I've led the entire thing without the RP, but it was scary. Parties can lower with 70m rope."

Meru Dispatches

It looks like you guys ended up moving left over to Der Sportsmen. I imagine you guys bailed somewhere off to the left of the climber in my pic of pitch 3. We bootied a bunch of gear a bit above this point. Proabaly a common mistake. Those who dont mind french freeing a couple of 11+ moves could finish this way via a few high quality 10+ pitches.

underworld. I'm jealous.

a climber buddy of mine loves the acopa spectres, first thing he does though is get them resoled with onyx rubber.